Never give up? The persistence of welfare participation in Sweden

"Welfare persistence is estimated and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households during the 1990s. This is done within the framework of a dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial conditions problem and permanent unobserved heterogeneity. We control for three type...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrén, Daniela, Andrén, Thomas
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Bratislava 2012
CELSI
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19128033124919462159-Never-give-up?-The-persistence.htm
_version_ 1771659893618507777
author Andrén, Daniela
Andrén, Thomas
author_facet Andrén, Daniela
Andrén, Thomas
collection Library items
description "Welfare persistence is estimated and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households during the 1990s. This is done within the framework of a dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial conditions problem and permanent unobserved heterogeneity. We control for three types of persistence in terms of observed and unobserved heterogeneity, serial correlation, and structural state dependence, the focus being on the latter measure. The results show that state dependence in Swedish welfare participation is relatively strong. This effect is three times as large for the foreign-born compared to Swedish-born, but when this effect is distributed over time, it disappears after three years for both groups. Contrary to previous studies, our results for foreignborn are that both country of origin and time in the country of destination have only small impacts on welfare participation."
format TEXT
geographic Sweden
id 19128033124919462159_6d06d784d99c41758894ccd584aaf677
institution ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
is_hierarchy_id 19128033124919462159_6d06d784d99c41758894ccd584aaf677
is_hierarchy_title Never give up? The persistence of welfare participation in Sweden
language English
physical 27 p.
Digital
publishDate 2012
publisher Bratislava
CELSI
spellingShingle Andrén, Daniela
Andrén, Thomas
social assistance
welfare state
Never give up? The persistence of welfare participation in Sweden
thumbnail https://www.labourline.org/Image_prev.jpg?Archive=100868092804
title Never give up? The persistence of welfare participation in Sweden
topic social assistance
welfare state
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19128033124919462159-Never-give-up?-The-persistence.htm